A new book about Emmett Till, Let the People See,[i] aims to explore “not just history but memory”.  Elliott J. Gorn says Emmett Till’s story “keeps resurfacing in unexpected times and places …  [and] like the dark Tallahatchie river, gives up its secrets in its own time”. It’s not true. Stories don’t give up secrets in … Continue reading Let the People See: Emmett Till, and Why They Don’t See